Dr. Raed Al-Shaikh is the Upstream Computer Operations Department Director at Saudi Aramco, and has more than 20 years of experience in Large-Scale High Performance Computing and Data Storage technologies, visualization and Cloud systems. His areas of interest lie in the Peer-to-Peer Computing, HPC, and Cloud-based environments. Prior to his position, he served as the Upstream Information Security Manager in the same organization. Dr. Al-Shaikh  has been serving as a member in the Industrial Advisory Board of the Computer Science and Engineering Departments at both KFUPM and PMU universities. Dr. Al-Shaikh has co-authored over 35 IEEE and ACM publications in the fields of HPC, Grid Computing and Distributed File Systems, and co-designed 12 U.S. registered patents in similar domains. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), and an Executive MBA degree from the University of Bahrain